APPENDIX B
Symbols and Parameters
Table B.1 Parameters and symbols used in Part I (dimensionless unless otherwise indicated).
| Parameter | Symbol | Typical Value/Units |
| Effective area | Ae | 50 μm2 |
| Pulse envelope | A(z, t) | |
| Fiber core radius | a | 4 μ m (SMF) |
| Bit rate | B | Mb/s or Gb/s |
| Electrical bandwidth | Be | GHz |
| Optical bandwidth | Bo | GHz |
| Bit error rate | BER | 109–10−15 |
| Normalized effective index | b | |
| Capacitance | C | μF (microfarad) |
| Speed of light in vacuum | c | 3 × 108 m/s |
| Dispersion parameter | D | ps/nm-km |
| Electric flux density | D | coulombs/m2 |
| Material dispersion | DM | ps/nm-km |
| Polarization-mode dispersion | DPMD |
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| Waveguide dispersion | DW | ps/nm-km |
| Dispersion-shifted fiber | DSF ... |
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